Malignity

  • 71Malevolence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Malevolence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 malevolence malevolence Sgm: N 1 bad intent bad intent bad intention Sgm: N 1 unkindness unkindness diskindness Sgm: N 1 ill nature ill nature ill will ill blood …

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  • 72malignance — n.; (also malignancy) 1. Malice, malignity, bitter enmity, extreme malevolence. 2. Unfavorableness, unpropitiousness. 3. Virulence, deadliness, malignity …

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  • 73malignancy — 1 malignity, *malice, ill will, malevolence, spite, despite, spleen, grudge Antonyms: & Contrasted words: see those at MALIGNITY 2 *tumor, neoplasm, cancer …

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  • 74malicious — malicious, malign, malignant, malevolent 1. All four words are connected with doing harm or evil (from Latin malus), but there are important differences. Malicious means ‘intending to do harm’ and is associated with people (or occasionally… …

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  • 75malign — malicious, malign, malignant, malevolent 1. All four words are connected with doing harm or evil (from Latin malus), but there are important differences. Malicious means ‘intending to do harm’ and is associated with people (or occasionally… …

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  • 76malignant — malicious, malign, malignant, malevolent 1. All four words are connected with doing harm or evil (from Latin malus), but there are important differences. Malicious means ‘intending to do harm’ and is associated with people (or occasionally… …

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  • 77malevolent — malicious, malign, malignant, malevolent 1. All four words are connected with doing harm or evil (from Latin malus), but there are important differences. Malicious means ‘intending to do harm’ and is associated with people (or occasionally… …

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  • 78ma|lig|ni|ty — «muh LIHG nuh tee», noun, plural ties. 1. great malice; extreme hate or ill will: »lago s soliloquy, the motive hunting of a motiveless malignity how awful is it! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). SYNONYM(S): enmity. 2. great harmfulness; dangerous… …

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  • 79Cowardly — Cow ard*ly, a. 1. Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. [1913 Webster] The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting …

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  • 80Curstness — Curst ness (k[^u]rst n[e^]s), n. Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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